Quotes by Peter Baynham - Page 1

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Comedy
Subjects
Unsuitable
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First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Firsts
Want
Writing
Foremost
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The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Plot
Redemption
Shapes
Oldest
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I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Comedian
Navigate
Qualified
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I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Cruelty
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I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Aim
Disagreement
Aims
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It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Mad
Shadow
Way
Shadows
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In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Circumstances
Naturally
Appalling
Occurs
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I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Annoyed
Bother
Logic
Pedantic
Small Things
Anyone Else
Small Things Small Things
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So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Christmas
Edgy
Film
Sticks
Trying
Super
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Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Delivery
Lust
One Hour
Speed
Arrive
Followed
Innovations
Instantly
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People complain that joking about serious subjects is 'making light' of them. Isn't that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out of the bully's tires.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Bully
Subjects
Good Idea
Joking
Lets
Tires
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Christmas movies, it's a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Christmas
Beard
Cheesy
Danger
Fake
Hollywood
Risk
Santa
Star
Hard Thing
Hollywood Star
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It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Phenomenon
Fairly
Life Myself People
Developed
Fully
Include
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The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Exotic
Robots
Silver
Antiquated
Evocative
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In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything fell apart.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Agony
Cake
Cancer
Icing
Apart
Bone
Slow
Skeleton
Tortured
Twisting
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We're chipping away at our capacity for wonder. When hologram TVs eventually go on sale, they'll cost £20,000 and be bought only by those strange, heroic, friendless men who live in flats piled high with giant 80s mobiles and DVD players weighing eight stone.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Capacity
Cost
Eight
Flats
Friendless
Heroic
Weighing
Wonder
Bought
Chipping
Giant
Piled
Stone
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People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?'
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Dripping
Endless
Morris
Roof
Sunshine
Music Me People
Chilling
Chris
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I'm nostalgic for the future I knew as a kid. Back then, it was a lovely, bleepy, heavenly land populated by svelte men in white polo necks, who would lounge on big white sofas sipping blue wine from big glass globes, beside women like the ones on the covers of Hedkandi chill out compilations.
Peter Baynham / Comedian
Blue
Chill
Heavenly
Necks
Nostalgic
Polo
Sipping
Wine
Future Men Women
Beside
Chill Out
Covers
Future Women Men
Glass
Lounge
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